Gabriel Spitzer
Editor
About
Gabriel Spitzer is an editor working with the newsroom and the Sound Politics team. He has worked in just about every editorial role in newsrooms from NPR to WBEZ to Alaska Public Radio Network. For his health and science coverage, Gabriel has been honored with the Kavli Science Journalism Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has launched multiple programs and podcasts, including Transmission from KNKX – one of the first podcasts about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gabriel received his Master's of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
Location: Seattle
Languages spoken: English, some French
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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The new food that has beekeepers "buzzing"
Bees are an important part of any working farm. But, unlike other livestock, there is one thing farmers haven’t been able to do for their bees: provide nutritious, human-made feed when flowers aren’t blooming. Until now.
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You may buy Nintendo's Switch 2, but you won’t own the games
Video Game writer Ryan DiVittorio joins Soundside to talk about Nintendo's upcoming Switch 2 launch, and the end of physical media in gaming.
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A Seattle woman dies during a heatwave and a new lawsuit blames oil companies
The day 65-year-old Julie Leon died was the hottest day ever recorded in Washington State history. Her death was officially ruled as hyperthermia, or overheating.
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Who's footing the big, beautiful, budget bill?
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A UW COVID expert on the latest federal vaccine recommendations
The Trump Administration’s health policies are upending years of advice about COVID vaccines. The shot was recommended for almost everyone. But now federal agencies are taking a much narrower approach.
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Week in Review: state budget, city politics, and fentanyl
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Ferguson's pen commandments
This week on Sound Politics -- what did Ferguson pass, and what did he use the veto pen on, in the state budget?
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Democratic dominoes and an odd election
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Rep. Emily Randall on UW, resisting Trump, tariffs and "constitutional crisis"
This week, Rep Emily Randall joins Sound Politics to talk about her initial months in Congress, her visit to an ICE detention facility in Tacoma, and why she appeared at a town hall in Spokane -- in the district of her fellow freshman, a Republican.
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Feeding the hungry will be harder than ever for the world's largest food aid agency
The World Food Programme, a U.N. agency and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is facing cuts in its budget that experts are describing as "unprecedented."
